Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
CARL SAGANWhat an astonishing thing a book is.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
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The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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We are all stardust.
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Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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